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GRE2018 Preliminary Program *Presentation Numbers Will Be Assigned Later in the Final Program GRE2018 Preliminary Program *presentation numbers will be assigned later in the final program Session Area Name Session Class Session Name Date Time Room Chair1 Chari2 ID No. Abstract Title First Author No. Area XII: Small Hydro Yuji Nakanishi Proposal of a Small Pump-Turbine System for Ocean Renewable Young-Do Choi (Mokpo National University) & Non-Conventional Invited Lecture IL-Sh Invited Lecture 21-Jun 13:00 - 13:30 315 (Kanagawa University, 1 Invited12-1 Mechanical Energy Storage System Energy Japan) Area XII: Small Hydro Shouichiro Iio (Shinshu Yusuke Katayama Combined Small Hydropower Technologies in Asia: Indonesian Turbine, Yoshinobu Watanabe (Nakayama Iron Works, Ltd., Japan) & Non-Conventional Oral Session O-Sh-1 Hydropower Development & Utilization 21-Jun 13:30 - 14:45 315 University, Japan) (Kyushu University, 1 a90095 Japanese Electrical Control and Indian Calculating Model Energy Japan) RENEWABLE ENRGY POLICY AND BARRIERS TO SMALL Tokihiko Fujimoto (Shizuoka University, Japan) 2 a90306 HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN JAPAN HARNESSING ELECTRICAL ENERGY FROM DAMULOG RIVER USING Nelson Socias Andres (College of Engineering and 3 a90536 PICO HYDRO SYSTEM Architecture, Bataan Peninsula State University, Balanga City, Bataan, Philippines) Development and Construction of Konokitani Hydro Power Plant Ryosuke Sato (J-Power (Electric Power Development 4 a90300 Co.,Ltd), Hydropower Dept.,Tokyo, Japan) GENERATING RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM EXTREME CLIMATIC Spyros Schismenos (UNESCO Chair on Conservation and 5 a90058 EVENTS Ecotourism of Riparian and Deltaic Ecosystems, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Kavala, Area XII: Small Hydro Young-Do Choi (Mokpo Yusuke Katayama INSTALLATION CONCEPT OF PORTABLE TYPE DARRIEUS HYDRO Daisuke Matsushita (Department of Mechanical & Non-Conventional Oral Session O-Sh-2 Small Hydropower 1 22-Jun 9:30 - 10:45 315 National University, (Kyushu University, 1 a90805 TURBINE IN INCLINED OPEN WATERWAY Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University) Energy Korea) Japan) STUDY ON POWER PERFORMANCE OF PORTABLE TYPE DARRIEUS Shunsuke Era (Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu 2 a90809 HYDRO TURBINE Sangyo University) EFFECT OF INSTALLATION CONDITION ON PERFORMANCE OF A Yusuke Katayama (Kyushu University) 3 a91114 DARRIEUS-TYPE HYDRAULIC TURBINE IN OPEN CHANNEL FLOW PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF FRANCIS TURBINE IN A SMALL Zhihao Liu (Department of Applied Mechanics, Waseda 4 a90897 HYDRO BY EXCHANGING A RUNNER University, 169-8555 Japan) INFLUENCE OF CASING WALL AND BLADE SHAPE ON A CROSS-FLOW Mirei Goto (Department of Faculty of Engineering, 5 a90521 TURBINE PERFORMANCE University of Shinshu, Nagano, Japan) Area XII: Small Hydro Daisuke Matsushita Yuji Nakanishi INVESTIGATION OF TORQUE LOSS ON A SUBMERGED IMPULSE Saki Usami (Shinshu University) & Non-Conventional Oral Session O-Sh-3 Small Hydropower 2 22-Jun 11:00 - 12:00 315 (Kyushu Sangyo (Kanagawa University, 1 a90899 TURBINE Energy University, Japan) Japan) PEREORMANCE EVALUATION OF A SUBMERGED IMPULSE HYDRO Takuto Azegami (Department of Faculty of Engineering, 2 a90497 TURBINE University of Shinshu, Nagano, Japan) EFFICIENCY MAXIMIZATION OF LOW-SPEED PERMANENT MAGNET Liangliang Wei (Kyoto University, 615-8510 Japan) 3 a91091 GENERATOR FOR MICRO-HYDRO GENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHM NON-CONTACT MESUREMENT OF SPREADING WIDTHS OF WATER Yuji Nakanishi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, 4 a90679 JET FOR IMPULSE TURBINES Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan) METHOD FOR INTRODUCING COMMUNITY-BASED MICRO-HYDRO Masayuki Nakayama (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Area XII: Small Hydro Small Hydro & Non-Conventional & Non-Conventional Poster Session P-Sh 21-Jun 15:00 - 16:00 foyer 1 a90856 POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS Technology, Tokyo, Japan) Energy Energy 500KW Pelton Turbine Design and Performance Analysis for Air Injected Park Hyeon soo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2 a90716 Operation KMOU, Busan, Korea) INFLUENCE OF TIP CLEARANCE ON A SMALL PROPELLER TURBINE Haruyuki Murakoshi (Shinshu University, Nagano, 380- 3 a90448 8553 Japan) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW MICRO HYDRAULIC POWER Tadayuki KAMIMURA (Osaka Prefecture University 4 a90275 GENERATORTURBINE BLADE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION College of Technology, Osaka, Japan) HYDRAULIC DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A LNG HYDRAULIC Ning Huang (College of Mechanical and Transportation 5 a90187 TURBINE RUNNER Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, China) Development of power generation system utilizing dissociation and Toshiyuki Kawasaki (Department of Electrical and 6 a90099 expansion characteristics of gas hydrate Electronic Engineering, Kitami institute of technology, Hokkaido, Japan) Investigation of optimum driving pressure of gas hydrate power generation Yuta Uemura (Department of Electrical and Electronic 7 a90100 system by scroll compressor Engineering,Kitami Institute of Technology,Hokkaido,Japan) ON PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR GENERATING “WATER THERMAL Tokio Ohkawa (Polytechnic University) 8 a90824 ENERGY” IN LOW TEMPERATURE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMIC SENSING SYSTEM UTILIZING Takeshi Kubota (North Japan research Institute for 9 a90852 COMBINATION OF WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY FOR AQUACULTURE Sustainable Energy, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan) 1 / 1 .
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